cartilage
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Doctors take a small sample of cartilage from a patient’s nose, use it to grow new cartilage in the lab, and then surgically implant it into damaged knee joints.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
Human trials in Europe are already under way, testing engineered cartilage implants developed at the University of Basel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
But a slate of research teams around the world are on an ambitious quest to cure arthritis, developing therapies that regrow cartilage and rebuild underlying bone to heal damaged joints.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
The human body contains three main forms of cartilage.
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
Then they took cartilage from the amputated foot and sculpted it around the bone to make me a nose.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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